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* Asa Shinn Mercer travels from Seattle to the U. S. East Coast and recruits 11 Mercer Girls, potential wives for men on the West Coast.
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* Asa Shinn Mercer, first president of the Territorial University of Washington and a member of the Washington State Senate
In 1894, witness Asa Shinn Mercer published an indignant account of the war, titled The Banditti of the Plains.
Those brothers, Thomas Mercer and Asa Shinn Mercer, are members of the Mercer family of Virginia.
1828: The Methodist Protestant Church was organized by Nicholas Snethen, who had earlier argued against the O ' Kelly split, along with Asa Shinn.
The Banditti of the Plains, Or the Cattlemen's Invasion of Wyoming in 1892 ( The Crowning Infamy of the Ages ) is a book written by Asa Shinn Mercer.
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Asa Shinn Mercer ( June 6, 1839 – August 10, 1917 ) was the first president of the Territorial University of Washington and a member of the Washington State Senate.
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The Mercer Girls or Mercer Maids were an 1860s project of Asa Shinn Mercer, an American who lived in Seattle, who decided to " import " women to the Pacific Northwest to balance the gender ratio.
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* Asa Mercer Middle School, Seattle, Washington
Mercer Island in Lake Washington and Mercer Street in Seattle are named not for Asa, but rather his brother Thomas .< ref name = ammons >
In 1864, Asa Mercer decided to go east to find women willing to relocate to Puget Sound.
The series was loosely based upon the Mercer Girls, Asa Mercer's efforts to bring civilization to old Seattle by importing marriageable women from the east coast of the United States in the 1860s, where the ravages of the American Civil War left towns short of men.
Asa and travels
In his travels, Atlee met Asa Palmer, a Pennsylvania farmer who raised beans, and who thought he had one plant that was resistant to cutworms.
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Coca-Cola founders Asa G. Candler and Dr. John S. Pemberton are seen together at Asa G. Candler & Co. pharmacy, 47 Peachtree St., Atlanta in the only extant albumen photograph from 1888.
() The biblical reference to the period of rivalry with Tibni is from the 27th year of Asa () to the 31st year.
Early support for Darwin's ideas came from the findings of field naturalists studying biogeography and ecology, including Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1860, and Asa Gray in 1862.
Roy Asa Haynes, Harding's Prohibition Commissioner, ran the patronage-riddled Prohibition bureau, which was allegedly corrupt from top to bottom.
The feat is depicted in various movies, including the 1939 film Union Pacific, starring Joel McCrea and Barbara Stanwyck and directed by Cecil B. DeMille, which depicts the fictional Central Pacific investor Asa Barrows obstructing attempts by the Union Pacific from reaching Ogden, Utah.
Asa Packer named his university ' Lehigh ' after his other passion, the railroad, despite suggestions from some to call it ' Packer University '.
In the Book of Kings, which doesn't mention Asa's defeat of Zerah, Asa is described as being extremely weak from a defensive point of view, and Biblical scholars regard the idea that Asa could defeat an enormous Egyptian army to be untenable.
* Asa Lyon ( 1763 – 1841 ) a United States Representative from Vermont was born in town.
In 1807, Asa Harris, a former colonial officer from the American Revolution, established a tavern in the town in the community of Harris Hill in the southwest part of Clarence.
In 1800, an English settler from Rhode Island named Asa Mann cleared a large amount of forest, and in 1804 laid out the plan for a town on this estate — Mann's field.
Clara was the daughter of Andrew Dickson, a New York State Assemblyman in 1832 ; and Horace was the son of Asa White, a farmer from Massachusetts whose once successful farm was ruined by a fire when Horace was 13.
Asa Adgate ( DR ), from December 7, 1815
* Asa Adgate ( 1767 – 1832 ), United States Congressman from New York, held several local government positions here.
The line, based on a quote from Hebrews 13: 8: " Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, forever ", was written by Wallace's new speechwriter, Asa Earl Carter.
On March 22, 2005, Onoda was merged with the town of San ' yō, from Asa District, to form the new city of San ' yō-Onoda.
Asa Harmon McCoy, despised by Jim Vance, uncle of Devil Anse Hatfield, for joining the Union Army during the Civil War, was discharged from the army early because of a broken leg.
Another Hiroshima woman, Asa Takii ( 1884 – 1998 ), had also lived to age 114, and in doing so she had become the oldest in Japan, but Kawate is the oldest person in the city's history and the only one from there to become the oldest recognized living person.
In 1836 he was appointed botanist to the state of New York and produced his Flora of that state in 1843 ; while from 1838 to 1843 he carried on the publication of the earlier portions of Flora of North America, with the assistance of his pupil, Asa Gray.
Terespol features in a novel by the Yiddish Nobel Prize-winning writer Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Family Moskat ( 1950 ), in which the young protagonist, Asa Heshel Bennet, comes to Warsaw from his hometown of Terespol Minor to study.
This crossing appears in use at least as early as 1802, when an extension of Asa Danforth Jr .' s pioneering road from eastern Toronto through what is now Trenton first reached the Bay of Quinte at Stone Mills ( Glenora ).
Since Darwin had nothing prepared, the reading included excerpts from his 1844 Essay and from a letter he had sent to Asa Gray in 1857, outlining his theory.
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* Eugene Asa Carr, U. S. Civil War general and Medal of Honor recipient.
In 1986, Bumpers defeated later U. S. Representative Asa Hutchinson, the Republican nominee.
Tim Hutchinson's brother is Asa Hutchinson, a Republican former member of the U. S. House from Arkansas's 3rd congressional district, the former undersecretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security, and the unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial nominee in 2006, the same year that Donna Hutchison was elected to the state House.
William Asa Hutchinson ( born December 3, 1950 ) is a former U. S. Attorney for the Fort Smith-based Western District of Arkansas, U. S. Congressman from the Third District of Arkansas, Administrator of the U. S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the first-ever Under Secretary for Border & Transportation Security at the U. S. Department of Homeland Security.
In 1996, when his brother decided not to run for re-election to the House in order to seek the open U. S. Senate seat that year caused by the retirement of popular Democrat David Pryor, Asa Hutchinson ran for the seat and won.
Asa Hutchinson's older brother, Tim Hutchinson, preceded him as U. S. Representative from Arkansas's 3rd congressional district and served one term as a United States Senator from Arkansas from 1997 – 2003, being defeated for a second term by then-Arkansas Attorney General Mark Pryor, a Democrat, in 2002.
The Republican Party nominated Asa Hutchinson, a former congressman, U. S. Attorney, DEA head, and Undersecretary of Homeland Security.
The United States Army had brought the U. S. 5th Cavalry Regiment, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Eugene Asa Carr, from Oklahoma to a position on the Cheyenne River in South Dakota to guard against such an occurrence.
A U. S. Attorney, Asa Hutchinson, would negotiate a peaceful conclusion to the siege and later prosecute CSA members.
U. S. Attorney Asa Hutchinson charged Ellison and most of his leadership with illegal weapon possession, Ellison faced the maximum 20 years prison sentence having been convicted on Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act charges.
* Asa Hutchinson-Former Arkansas State Republican Party Chairman, U. S. Attorney for Western District of Arkansas, U. S. Congressman from Arkansas, DEA Administrator and Homeland Security Undersecretary.
Jeremy and Timothy are the sons of former U. S. Senator Tim Hutchinson and nephews of former Congressman and former Undersecretary of Homeland Security, Asa Hutchinson.
Asa Fitch ( November 10, 1765 – August 24, 1843 ) was a U. S. representative from New York from 1811 to 1813.
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